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To Kill a Mockingbird |  | Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, John Megna
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
as of 9/9/2010 02:00 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  417 reviews
Sales Rank: 692
Genre: Book Adaptations
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 130 Minutes
ASIN: B000ID37RM
Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1962
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Told through the eyes of "Scout," a feisty six-year-old tomboy To Kill A Mockingbird carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Maycomb ("a tired and sleepy town") finds itself the venue of the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping an ignorant white woman. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem's widowed father and a deeply principled man, is appointed to defend Tom for whom a guilty verdict from an all-white jury is a foregone conclusion. Juxtaposed against the story of the trial is the children's hit and run relationship with Boo Radley, a shut-in who the children and Dill's Aunt Stephanie suspect of insanity and who no one has seen in recent history. Cigar-box treasures, found in the knot hole of a tree near the ramshackle Radley house, temper the children's judgment of Boo. "You never know someone," Atticus tells Scout, "until you step inside their skin and walk around a little." But fear keeps them at a distance until one night, in streetlight and shadows, the children confront an evil born of ignorance and blind hatred and must somehow find their way home. |
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| Customer Reviews:
 unplayable DVD September 6, 2010
customer1
Could not view it, the DVD showed it could not play in my region, whatever that means.
 movie September 5, 2010
Karen B. Dean
Just a wonderful movie that was bought at Amazon and arrived quickly and in fine shape.
Excellent Movie August 31, 2010
G'ma of 7
I had seen this movie many years ago and was happy to find it for an affordable price on Amazon. This is an excellent movie, thought-provoking and addresses prejudice--whether against the color of our skin or believing the rumors about others. I would recommend this to anyone.
Classical Giant August 27, 2010
Mark E. Hendricks (Lexington Park, MD)
Althought the book by Harper Lee gives more detail, this is one of the greatest Gregory Peck movies of all time. A very well done piece of cinematic tribute to an awesome story.
A family classic August 20, 2010
Chrijeff (Scranton, PA)
What can you say about this movie that hasn't already been said? Gregory Peck offers what may be his definitive role (he won the Best-Actor Oscar for it after four fruitless nominations) and, perhaps, the most famous dad in film; as various critics have said, not even Peck himself was as good a father as Atticus Finch, but Atticus is probably what every dad wants to be. Though slow in pace, the movie is never boring, and the picture it presents of the Deep South (Maycomb Co., Ala.) in the days before Martin Luther King is both fascinating and disturbing. If, like me, you find yourself puzzled over why the Ewells faked a rape and accused Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) of the crime, your best bet is to read the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which also provides a lot of background about the Finches and their neighbors. Robert Duvall, today one of our most respected actors, makes his first credited big-screen appearance (with never a word of dialogue) as "Boo" Radley, the mysterious and believed-insane neighbor of the Finches. This is a movie every child should see and every adult should know.
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